Marble Past Monumental Present Building With Antiquities In The Mediaeval Mediterranean The Medieval Mediterranean V 80

Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170839
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marble Past, Monumental Present written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey and synthesis of the structural and decorative uses of Roman remains, particularly marble, throughout the mediaeval Mediterranean, deals with the Christian West - but also Byzantium and Islam, each the inheritor of much Roman territory. It includes a 5000-image DVD.

Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781282400078
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marble Past, Monumental Present: Building With Antiquities in the Mediaeval Mediterranean (The Medieval Mediterranean, V. 80) written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Russell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191630403
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade written by Ben Russell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative monograph series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Roman rule (c.100 BC to AD 350). Carefully quantified archaeological and documentary data will be integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians, and archaeologists think about economic behaviour collectively rather than from separate perspectives. The volumes will include a substantial comparative element and thus be of interest to historians of other periods and places. The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world. In this volume, Russell provides a new and wide-ranging examination of the production, distribution, and use of carved stone objects throughout the Roman world, including how enormous quantities of high-quality white and polychrome marbles were moved all around the Mediterranean to meet the demand for exotic material. The long-distance supply of materials for artistic and architectural production, not to mention the trade in finished objects like statues and sarcophagi, is one of the most remarkable features of the Roman world. Despite this, it has never received much attention in mainstream economic studies. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, the administration, distribution, and chronology of quarrying, and the practicalities of stone transport, Russell offers a detailed assessment of the Roman stone trade and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.

Author : Giovanna Antonella Dino
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039215507
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Stone and Architectural Heritage written by Giovanna Antonella Dino and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is made up of contributions dealing with heritage stones from different countries around the world. The stones are described, as well as their use in vernacular and contemporaneous architecture. Heritage stones are those stones that have special significance in human culture. Examples include some very important stones that have been either neglected because they are no longer extracted, or stones that have great significance in commercial terms but knowledge of their national and/or international heritage has not been well documented. In this collection of articles, we have tried to spread awareness of architectural heritage around the world, the natural stones that have been used in its construction, and the need to preserve historical quarries that once provided the source of such stones. Historical quarries are linked to regional culture and tradition. Because of the specific technical and aesthetical characteristics of heritage stones, which have lasted for centuries, these historical quarries should be preserved to be able to use the stones for the proper restoration of monuments and historical buildings to avoid negative actions that can be observed in many places in the restoration of buildings, which are some times part of World Heritage sites. The final intention of this book is to continuosly grow the interest on this fascinating subject of heritage stones.

Author : Troels Myrup Kristensen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771244123
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making and Breaking the Gods written by Troels Myrup Kristensen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic premise of the book at hand is that there is meaning to be 'excavated' (in both meanings of the word) from Christian responses to pagan sculpture in the period from the fourth to the sixth century. More than mindless acts of religious violence by fanatical mobs, these responses are revelatory of contemporary conceptions of images and the different ways in which the material manifestations of the pagan past could be negotiated in Late Antiquity. Statues were important to the social, political and religious life of cities across the Mediterranean, as well as part of a culture of representation that was intricately bound to bodily taxonomies and visual practices.

Author : Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones used in Antiquity. International Symposium
Publisher : Institut Catala D'Arqueologia Classica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone written by Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones used in Antiquity. International Symposium and published by Institut Catala D'Arqueologia Classica. This book was released on 2012 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philippe Jockey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782706820243
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leukos Lithos written by Philippe Jockey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas R. Underwood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390537
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 written by Douglas R. Underwood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents the history of Roman urban public monuments in the Late Antique West, demonstrating that their vibrant, yet variable, development was closely tied to significant shifts in urban ideologies and euergetistic patterns.

Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900440547X
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plundered Empire written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing extensive documentation, the book examines the mechanics, trials and tribulations of plundering the Ottoman East for private and public collections in Europe. It helps document the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections.

Author : Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones used in Antiquity. International Symposium
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873132012
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Study of Marble and Other Stones Used in Antiquity written by Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones used in Antiquity. International Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the broad range of research carried out in co-operation between the sciences and the humanities. It deals with studies of specific quarries in ancient Greece and Rome, including trade and archaeological uses of quarried stone in Hungary and France and the Mediterranean area. Other considered topics: Methods of determining the provenance of marble Provenance studies of other stones, such as gypsym, limestone and granite Studies from the New World of pre-Columbian, colonial and modern limestone and marble Importance is also placed on conservation, which is becoming increasingly important as nations world-wide place the highest priority in preserving their cultural heritage.